1996

James E. Patrick co-founds National Healing Corporation.

NHC partners with Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida to create its first managed wound center with hyperbaric outpatient services. The successful Bethesda Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Program now has two locations and has treated more than 12,000 patients since opening its doors.

NHC signs Corporate Partners Agreement with Quorum Health Resources which provides management, consulting and educational services to hospitals nationwide.

2000

James E. Patrick is named Chief Executive Officer.

2001

Establishes corporate offices in Boca Raton, Florida.

Publishes inaugural issue of Wound Healing Perspectives, NHC's quarterly journal summarizing the latest research and trends on challenging wound topics within the industry.

NHC begins offering wound healing services for hospitals to Florida and Alabama members of VHA, a national alliance providing industry-leading supply chain management services and supporting the formation of regional and national networks to help members improve their clinical and economic performance.

2003

NHC reports unprecedented growth of 30 percent.

2004

NHC manages one in every five managed and outsourced wound healing centers in the United States and is added to the roster of nationally respected healthcare suppliers created by the Institute of Healthcare Executives and Suppliers, LLC (IHES), a consortium of America's leading hospital and healthcare executives who exchange personal knowledge, experience and time with their peers and healthcare suppliers to improve their hospital's systems, better educate their suppliers in meeting the hospital's needs, and exchange new and innovative ideas to make the industry more productive and efficient.

NHC creates its Medical Advisory Board of leading wound care experts to serve as a resource to its managed wound centers.

In what may be the first instance of a company in the wound care industry partnering with a leading research institution, NHC creates a groundbreaking academic partnership with The Ohio State University.

NHC launches its Satellite Symposia Series offering physicians and clinicians in-depth presentations about common problems or challenges in advanced wound care.

2005

NHC expands its agreement with VHA Inc., a national healthcare alliance, to offer wound management services to all VHA members across the country.

NHC and The Ohio State University establish a chronic wound tissue bank which now contains the world’s most complete catalog of healing and non-healing responses cross-indexed across wound types and patient conditions.

NHC implements its national hyperbaric safety director program ensuring clinical excellence, management best practices and consistency of services.

Robert S. Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D., is named to lead NHC's expanded Medical Advisory Board.

2006

National Healing Corporation earns the Joint Commission’s Disease-Specific Care Certification for wound care.

NHC achieves an average healing rate of 84 percent with 93 percent of wounds healed in less than 16 weeks and a limb amputation rate of less than 2 percent.

2007

Two of the nation’s industry leaders merge to offer highly-customized wound management services for hospitals as NHC acquires Medical Multiplex, Inc.

A leader in specialized wound care training, NHC opens National Healing Institute seminars to residents and fellows at hospitals with NHC managed wound healing centers.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publishes details of the first study based on tissue samples supplied by the NHC wound tissue bank at OSU.

NHC renews research agreement with The Ohio State University.

NHC’s Wound Healing Clinical Pathway® is updated and three new pathways are added.

2008

Through its academic partnership with the University of Miami, NHC launches its exclusive rapid wound pathology service ensuring that NHC managed wound healing centers in every community have access to leading edge treatments and tools for atypical wounds. The case study of a rare life-threatening condition that was successfully diagnosed and treated through the program was presented before the international Dermatopathology Symposium in Paris.

2009

NHC managed wound healing centers participate in several multi-center clinical trials evaluating the effectiveness of new therapies and products with the primary objective of advancing wound care through knowledge driven by research.

2010

NHC accounts for nearly one in three of the nation's managed and outsourced wound healing centers.

The first NHC managed wound healing center, Bethesda Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Program, continues to lead advances by adopting a pioneering strategy for preserving limbs through an interdisciplinary team approach consisting of limb preservation experts who can care for a variety of underlying medical conditions of a severe leg or foot wound. The team includes vascular and plastic surgeons as well as a podiatrist, orthopedist, endocrinologist, internist and an infectious disease specialist who are assisted by the program’s specialized wound care nurses, dressing management technicians, physical and occupational therapists and dietitians.